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Hour Three | Matt’s QB Rankings, SEC Showdowns & Ask the Bench · Off The Bench

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Hands to Hester, and Hester, yep, got it, five out
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: of five.
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  Speaker 1: From carrying each other to a natty to carrying each
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: other on the air.
• 0:11
  Speaker 3: Flynn is back to throw for the end zone goal.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Cane Studio, it's Off the Bench.
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  Speaker 2: I can't stand it.
• 0:51
  Speaker 4: Welcome back in OTB.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Hour number three here live from the Raising Cane Studio.
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: Wednesday shows kick ass. They're brought to you by Poncho. PonchoOutdoors.com
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: slash Off The Bench. Jake Flynn, Alondra, and Luke here
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  Speaker 2: with you on this Wednesday morning.
• 1:09
  Speaker 5: Should have never put him on a panel.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: Should have never done it.
• 1:15
  Speaker 5: You let it get to your head.
• 1:17
  Speaker 4: He thinks he's a Fabio now.
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  Speaker 6: When it's the number one seller, what are you going
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  Speaker 6: to do? How is it not going to go to
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  Speaker 6: your head?
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  Speaker 2: It is the number one seller.
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  Speaker 6: It's not a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: That light purple joint, you ain't getting that one. She gone.
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  Speaker 6: They come back, though. Make sure you're in line.
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: You better be in line. You better be on the
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: website when it comes back. There was a medium at...
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: I just bought it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, why not?
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  Speaker 2: Flip that seriously like it's like there's there was one
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  Speaker 2: I was like hell I got sons somebody wears a
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: medium flip it one of y'all quadruple the cost little
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: hoodie wore it to the Louisiana Tech game I bet
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: people were pissed they are I thought they were sold
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  Speaker 2: out I was like they are but somebody I guess
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  Speaker 2: maybe found one I even went as far as to
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: like reach out to Jacob and I was like hey
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  Speaker 2: wink wink where's a purple one right like the light
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  Speaker 2: purple yep and it's not because they made 10 of them.
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  Speaker 6: And there just wasn't many No.
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  Speaker 2: So if you see one, this is dead serious. If
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  Speaker 2: you see one of the LSU shirts on poncho, buy it.
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: Because it's not going to be there long. LSU sells
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  Speaker 2: out faster than any other college, and that's actually factual.
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  Speaker 4: That's not Flynn facts.
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  Speaker 2: That's actual facts.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Probably because of me.
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: Sex sells.
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  Speaker 6: Let me just tell you, I just gave George Paul Thomas, GPT,
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  Speaker 6: I just gave it a piece of my mind.
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  Speaker 5: You yelled at it?
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  Speaker 6: I yelled at it. I told her to check its
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  Speaker 6: numbers again because I'd already told her to verify.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And I said, they are so wrong. And it said,
• 2:51
  Speaker 6: you're right. I made a significant mistake here. I generated
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  Speaker 6: the graphic before I actually verified every player's 2026 totals.
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  Speaker 6: And then I said, do I need to double check
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  Speaker 6: everything you do? You made me look like an idiot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: On radio.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 5: It did.
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  Speaker 6: And I said, you should not have to double check
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  Speaker 6: me before putting something on air. I gave you bad data.
• 3:12
  Speaker 6: Then I told you I had verified it when I
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  Speaker 6: had not verified it carefully enough.
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  Speaker 5: What an idiot.
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  Speaker 6: This was unacceptable, especially knowing this graphic was for your show.
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  Speaker 5: At least, again, tapping the chest.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't put our arms out here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Not even chat.
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  Speaker 6: Good on you, George Paul Thomas.
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  Speaker 5: George Paul Thomas is accountable.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good for him.
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  Speaker 6: He really is. It's a good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But if he knows that he didn't double check his work,
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  Speaker 3: why did he tell you that he did?
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a teenager?
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  Speaker 7: Faker.
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  Speaker 4: Lying to you like that?
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  Speaker 2: Fraud.
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  Speaker 6: He said, going forward, Flynn's top 10. He's going to
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  Speaker 6: treat the stats as broadcast data. Game log verification first,
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  Speaker 6: graphic second. So he measured once, cut once.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I would have done in your scenario,
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  Speaker 2: but not now. Because I want to bring your quarterback
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: rankings back up so we can laugh at them. And
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  Speaker 2: I tell you how wrong you are.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, according to the stats.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the bad stats.
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  Speaker 5: The wrong stats.
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  Speaker 6: Some of them are actually correct, and a lot of
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  Speaker 6: them aren't. But these stats aren't how I developed the list.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I think you are right now, though?
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  Speaker 2: Truly.
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  Speaker 6: Crushing it. No, not at all.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I think you are? You're the AP poll.
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  Speaker 2: Crushing it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm the AP poll? You are.
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  Speaker 4: You're taking preseason narratives and using them in your rankings
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  Speaker 4: for the current top ten.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at quarterbacks. You don't have the number two
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  Speaker 2: passer in the NFL right now in your top ten.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Don't worry. There we go. There's a full screen.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have what?
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  Speaker 2: The number two passer in the NFL right now. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have him anywhere in your top ten.
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  Speaker 6: Who is that, Bryce Young?
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  Speaker 4: Bryce Young.
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  Speaker 6: I don't have him in there. I told you he's
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  Speaker 6: too small.
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  Speaker 2: So you're taking preseason narratives, AP poll, and you're allowing
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: them to cloud your judgments.
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  Speaker 6: What did I do last week? I kept somebody off
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  Speaker 6: that everybody else wanted on there. And what did that
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  Speaker 6: make them do? It made them play better. There's too
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  Speaker 6: many things.
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Young right now has 648 passing yards, a quarterback
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  Speaker 2: rating of 113.3. So it's better than one, two, three, four, five,
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  Speaker 2: six of your quarterbacks on your list. Mm-hmm. Six of
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  Speaker 2: the ten.
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  Speaker 6: I told you there's a lot of variables when I
• 5:32
  Speaker 6: make my quarterback list. And not all of them are
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  Speaker 6: fair to everybody. Not all of them are consistent throughout
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  Speaker 6: each person and each pick. But I use a variable
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  Speaker 6: that makes sense. And this is how my list is.
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  Speaker 6: And a lot of times it's how, if I'm, not
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  Speaker 6: with everybody, but a lot of times it's when I'm
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  Speaker 6: making a decision, whether it keeps on or off, it's
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  Speaker 6: if I was a general manager right now, picking a quarterback,
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  Speaker 6: would I pick that person? Bryce Young has not, there's
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  Speaker 6: too many things, there's too much baggage there yet for
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  Speaker 6: me to erase what I've seen in the past. Now,
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  Speaker 6: the past doesn't play always in my list, but it
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  Speaker 6: plays a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, third most yards per attempt in the league, only
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  Speaker 2: behind Lamar and Josh Allen. So it's not check down
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  Speaker 2: Charlie either.
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  Speaker 6: Okay. So that's your argument is Bryce Young?
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  Speaker 4: I just thought it'd be nice to add him.
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  Speaker 6: You're reaching deep. Deep in the bag on that one.
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  Speaker 2: Second in the NFL in passing yards. He's throwing to
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: Teddy Roll, McMillan, and Uber drivers. Trust me.
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  Speaker 6: I got a PSA 10 Black Pandora Bryce Young rookie card. Downtown. Downtown. Downtown.
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  Speaker 5: Capital City?
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  Speaker 6: Downtown. Baton Rouge. Charlotte. That's a good one. I want
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  Speaker 6: him to play well. I want him to win MVP.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't feel like it.
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  Speaker 6: But guess what? I'm trying to Get his juices flowing
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  Speaker 6: a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 6: What else do you have a problem with? You got
• 7:02
  Speaker 6: a problem with Matthew Stafford?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you have a man crush on him.
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  Speaker 6: 10th all time? So I don't. And he looks a
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  Speaker 6: little bit more like.
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  Speaker 5: Josh Allen.
• 7:10
  Speaker 6: Josh Allen. Josh Allen. Actually, it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's Josh Allen's headshot.
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  Speaker 5: Also, Joe Burrow. Who is that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that is. I don't know. It looks like the
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  Speaker 6: most random backup quarterback. I think I've seen that guy
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  Speaker 6: on HGTV before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Brock Purdy actually looks like Brock Purdy.
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: Well, because he's a standard white guy.
• 7:32
  Speaker 6: Dak Prescott looks like Matt Frakes, the old nutritionist for LSU.
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  Speaker 2: He does.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they added like 20 pounds to Dak.
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  Speaker 6: Jalen Hurts looks like he's on the game of Guess Who?
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  Speaker 6: With that facial hair. Anyway, it's a beautiful graphic. Not
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  Speaker 6: factually accurate.
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  Speaker 2: I do agree with you with the top guy, though.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Allen's an alien.
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  Speaker 6: What about Patrick Mahomes?
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  Speaker 2: He's also an alien.
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  Speaker 6: Brock Purdy, a three. I don't mind it.
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  Speaker 2: I think Stafford's a little too high. I have Shuck
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  Speaker 2: a little bit higher. I like that you did add
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  Speaker 2: Drew Locke, though.
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  Speaker 6: You have Shuck five?
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  Speaker 2: Four or five, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Not there yet. You got to earn it. You got
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  Speaker 6: to earn your keep on this list. And, yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: threw Drew in there as like a tip of the
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  Speaker 6: cap to him. He's not going to make it any
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  Speaker 6: higher than 10. Unless he plays like that for five
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  Speaker 6: or six more weeks.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like an objective list when you're already telling
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  Speaker 4: me what you're.
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  Speaker 2: Not going to do.
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  Speaker 6: Well, look, again, you have to earn your stripes. A
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  Speaker 6: little bit.
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  Speaker 5: I'd love to see a rubric for what you do.
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  Speaker 6: There's not one.
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  Speaker 5: Clearly.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 6: So no real objections to the list.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Bryce Young should have been on it.
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  Speaker 6: Where? That's my biggest one. Who are you taking out?
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  Speaker 6: That's the big thing. Caleb Williams, when he's back healthy,
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  Speaker 6: somebody's got to come out.
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  Speaker 2: I'd probably take Dak out.
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  Speaker 4: Because those stats aren't real stats.
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  Speaker 6: Those aren't real stats. But that's not what I bet.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't say, hey, give me the stats. I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to base my.
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  Speaker 4: List off of them.
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  Speaker 6: Jared Goff's on the edge. Trevor Lawrence is playing really good.
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  Speaker 6: They're out of there. So again, who are you replacing?
• 9:23
  Speaker 6: I just told you.
• 9:25
  Speaker 4: All right, let's go to a little... OTB mailbag.
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: I have a special delivery for the bench. And look,
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: it is marked most urgent.
• 9:35
  Speaker 6: We'll be writing to you. The internet. What the is
• 9:38
  Speaker 6: the internet?
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: Hashtag OTB mailbag.
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: Should Alondra take over PowerPoint duties? Feels like it.
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  Speaker 6: I thought it was a nice graphic.
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: Dude, the pictures.
• 10:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, the pictures. Well, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: The pictures, the stats were wrong.
• 10:04
  Speaker 6: Okay, well, that's never going to happen again. George Paul
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  Speaker 6: Thomas guaranteed it to me.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have a lot of faith in that.
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  Speaker 6: He admitted that he told me that he verified it.
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 10:13
  Speaker 5: So what's to stop him from doing that again?
• 10:17
  Speaker 6: Solid. Good point. Again, AI is going to one day
• 10:21
  Speaker 6: end humanity.
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: Stop talking about your list, buddy. Start getting these questions.
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: Hashtag O2B mailbag. What is your favorite kind of quesadilla?
• 10:29
  Speaker 4: The next one.
• 10:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, great answer. But steak, probably.
• 10:33
  Speaker 6: Keep it simple. It's kind of like pizza to me.
• 10:37
  Speaker 6: The more you try to church it up and do
• 10:39
  Speaker 6: too much to it, That's the point where I don't.
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: I love a churched up pizza, too, though. I do
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: love a churched up pizza.
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  Speaker 2: I hear you.
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  Speaker 6: You can do too much.
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  Speaker 2: You're saying just sometimes cheese and steak or cheese and chicken.
• 10:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, sometimes just a pepperoni pizza is the one that's
• 10:52
  Speaker 6: going to slap the hardest.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: Right. I can get you.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have a steak quesadilla and dip it in some guac.
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  Speaker 6: You know what? I do love to put not a lot.
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  Speaker 6: Just have a few grilled onions in it and throw
• 11:03
  Speaker 6: the cilantro in there. It's an elite move.
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: I have the cilantro tastes like soap thing, so I
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  Speaker 3: don't like cilantro, but I can get on board with
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  Speaker 3: some grilled onions.
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  Speaker 6: So we found a food truck recently that makes a quesadilla,
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  Speaker 6: a really good one, and they have like a birria,
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  Speaker 6: like a taco, but they'll take for the quesadilla, they'll
• 11:22
  Speaker 6: take on one side of the tortilla, they'll just like
• 11:24
  Speaker 6: dip it in the birria sauce, and then they'll make
• 11:26
  Speaker 6: the Quesadilla.
• 11:27
  Speaker 5: That sounds fire.
• 11:28
  Speaker 6: It's just like a little bit of seasoning.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: Where's that?
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: Where'd that be?
• 11:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: Where's that food truck at?
• 11:33
  Speaker 6: I don't need to tell you. I don't need the
• 11:34
  Speaker 6: lines too long. Wow.
• 11:37
  Speaker 5: You're not going to tell me?
• 11:38
  Speaker 6: No, it's one on that. It's one on that.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: Hashtag O2B mailbag. Flynn, would you ever consider making a
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: high carb version of my high?
• 11:51
  Speaker 6: I'm assuming you are some sort of marathon triathlete.
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: He's a cyclist.
• 11:56
  Speaker 6: Cyclist. Yeah. No, I won't. But I do get that
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: question asked quite a bit. And it kind of defeats
• 12:04
  Speaker 6: the purpose of what we are trying to do, which
• 12:06
  Speaker 6: is replace what you lose in your sweat the fastest
• 12:09
  Speaker 6: way possible. Not necessarily trying to get the caloric intake.
• 12:13
  Speaker 6: So I always tell my marathon, like my Ironman marathon, cyclist,
• 12:20
  Speaker 6: stuff like that. We work pretty good with the goo stuff.
• 12:23
  Speaker 6: the high carb stuff. But we're never going to change
• 12:25
  Speaker 6: it just because it won't get into your bloodstream as
• 12:27
  Speaker 6: fast with the electrolytes.
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: You should get into that game. The gel game.
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: You should get into that. My high gel.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: My carb.
• 12:39
  Speaker 6: My carb. Love that.
• 12:42
  Speaker 5: You really need a hiring. This is crazy.
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: Alondra needs to be your marketing person. It's not even close.
• 12:47
  Speaker 5: I give you so many free ideas.
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: Hashtag O2B mailbag.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: How much wood could a Tyler Shuck shuck if a
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: Tyler Shuck could shuck wood?
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  Speaker 5: All the wood.
• 12:56
  Speaker 6: There is a second verse to that, and I'm blanking
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  Speaker 6: on it. Tyler Shuck could shuck wood.
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  Speaker 2: All of it. Just say all of it.
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  Speaker 4: I know you're a hater, but say all of it.
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  Speaker 6: I'll put him at number six.
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: Hashtag O2B mailbag.
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: Then you're two. Is Blake Baker going to come up
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  Speaker 2: with a defensive game plan to stop his arch nemesis,
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: Marcel Reed?
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  Speaker 6: That's a good question.
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: That's the million-dollar question, isn't it?
• 13:20
  Speaker 6: Fool me once. Fool me twice.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 6: Fool me three times. You ain't going to fool me
• 13:26
  Speaker 6: three times. Right. You ain't going to do it.
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: Hashtag OTB mailbag.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: Did you all know that T-Bob had a national day yesterday,
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: National Hobbit Day? I did not. I missed that one.
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  Speaker 7: Hmm.
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't on the Hobbit.
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: It wasn't on the Hobbit newsletter.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: Hashtag OTB mailbag.
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: Of the people at the station, which one would be
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: least likely to own a mistake?
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: Who would be most likely? Least likely.
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  Speaker 3: Most likely Chad, obviously.
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  Speaker 5: George Paul Thomas is the most likely to own up
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  Speaker 5: to a mistake.
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: Oh, he did.
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  Speaker 2: He just did it most recently. I feel like a
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: lot of shows don't own up. And that's not just here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of places. I feel like there's a
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: lot of arms out. Not enough arms patting the chest.
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  Speaker 2: That's my personal opinion.
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: Everybody's wrong.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: But you gotta admit when you are in this business
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  Speaker 4: and a lot of people don't.
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  Speaker 2: Fair?
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: Fair.
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  Speaker 6: That's fair. I was wrong once. I thought I was
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: wrong once.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: But I woke up.
• 14:42
  Speaker 6: I thought I was wrong once.
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: But I was mistaken. Knee slapper.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Hashtag O2B mailbag. Which last name would you prefer to have?
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  Speaker 2: Booty or Bussy?
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  Speaker 5: That's a great question.
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: What a question.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: I think I'm going to go with Booty.
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: Busey.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Would you rather it be Kayshawn Booty, like it's spelled,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: or Josh Booty, the old LSU quarterback, just straight up Booty?
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: Maybe spelled like Kayshawn's is.
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  Speaker 4: Although it probably gets mispronounced a lot.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you think that other people pronounce Booty
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: the way it's spelled?
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: Bout?
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, probably some bout. Probably some.
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: Boutte, yeah.
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: Boutte.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: Which is really funny.
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: Why is that funny? Boutte. Boutte.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Boutte. I will say, Hoon Palmer does call himself out.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: He's one of the few. I'll agree to that. He's
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: got some bad takes, but we all do.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: He picked Ole Miss.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: That one actually ended up right.
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: It doesn't matter.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: He still has no grit.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: It doesn't matter.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Probably him while we lost.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: What does cilantro taste like to normal people?
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: Cilantro. What does that mean?
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: Like, because it doesn't taste.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: It's a thing that, like, it either tastes like soap
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: to you or it tastes.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: Tastes like soap?
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: I've never heard that.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: There's, like, a gene, and if you have it or
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: something like that, that you don't like cilantro because it
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: tastes like soap to you. So I'm just wondering what
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: it tastes like to people that it doesn't taste like
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: soap to.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: I feel sorry for those people. Cilantro is delicious.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: Every time I'm like, no cilantro, people are like, I'm
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: pulling your Mexican card. But I'm like, it doesn't taste
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: good to me.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: It tastes like soap to you?
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: It tastes like soap.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: So what does it taste like to you is what
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: I'm trying.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: To figure out.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: I mean, can you explain any taste to anybody?
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: Like, is it earthy? Is it like.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: It's floral.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, floral.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: So like.
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: What is the smell? Because cilantro is a very.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't like the smell of it.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: That is strange. Okay, I've never heard this.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: I got to process.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Like, what's the thing that looks like cilantro that they
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: put in Asian foods?
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: Is that what it tastes like?
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: I mean, cilantro. People confuse cilantro and basil. No, not basil.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: Cilantro and what? Parsley.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: Because they're usually next to each other at the grocery store.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. They do look alike.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: They do be looking alike.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Would you rather your last name is Wiener or Dingaling?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Probably Wiener.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: I've never seen a Dingaling.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: I've never met a Dingaling.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Dingaling.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Never?
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Not once?
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: Oh, God.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: I don't think we're going to top that one.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: No.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Might as well go ahead and go to break.
• 18:18
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• 18:19
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  Speaker 5: Can I tell the people about a contest we're doing
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• 21:00
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• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Okay, so y'all know.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, we all know ball in here. Will Wade
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• 21:16
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. So we got basketball starting that soon?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They started practice already, so they have enough to practice.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: When was that date?
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: October 8th.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Oh my God. That's dumb.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: It's like right down the road. Yeah.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: It's almost October 8th.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: That's crazy.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: So I won't be here that day.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Luke?
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: What?
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Looks like which board am I on?
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: This one. Is there sirens happening? I feel like I
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: keep hearing stuff and then I take Maybe not. Maybe
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: it was a song.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Maybe it was just Neo. Yeah.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: I'm tripping.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Anyway.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Got me tripping. Oh, I'm stumbling. That's Fergie.
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• 22:46
  Speaker 2: How are we feeling about all these ranked on.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Ranked matchups in the SEC, huh?
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: I feel great about it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Love it. The most we've ever had, literally.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Four. Is it four?
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: In the SEC.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: You get the Battle of UT. The Battle of the Oranges.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Whichever one wins, they get the rights to UT for
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: a year. Tennessee, Texas.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: They should.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: I guess so.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know much about Tennessee. I feel like they've
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: just been quietly, I guess, good because they're, what, 16th?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Or where are they ranked?
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to lie. I don't know much about
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: their team.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: I don't even know who their quarterback is. Not T.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Martin.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: He over here.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: He's got a statue in front of Neyland, though.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: Shout out to T. Nice little career.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: So, but Texas is a five and a half.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: He's on Brandon.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Remember Taylor talked about it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Taylor knew like his social security number.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: Texas four and a half.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: He has been really good. He's done for 552, six touchdowns,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: no interceptions.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So he's got a quarterback rating of 167.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: But of course.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Trouble for Arch.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Tennessee has played. Furman, Georgia Tech, and Kennesaw State. I
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: thought Georgia Tech was going to be good.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: They're not?
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: No.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: They lost to, remember, Colorado.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's right.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: They opened the year. They beat Mercer, maybe.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no Haynes King.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Haynes King is at Louisville.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Their OC is at Florida now, too, so they lost
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: their OC as well.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Haynes King 2.0 is at Louisville.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: Hey, you might have said this yesterday, but Yes, four
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: ranked on ranked matchups in the SEC. And the other
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: one that's not ranked is Oklahoma versus Georgia. Oklahoma just
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: two weeks ago was in the top ten, and I
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: get they hadn't played up to where their preseason was, but,
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, still could be a good matchup. That's
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: a 14-point game.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: So I'm hearing a lot about, like, Neyland Stadium. And
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: this game, by the way, I think it's a noon
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Eastern kick, which is criminal.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: What?
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Don't play anything of note before 3.30 Eastern.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: That's crazy.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: But Neyland, I think it must have changed. Like Tennessee
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: got a new type of fan. Didn't they add to it?
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: I don't even know that because it was already big
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: when we played there.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: But maybe it was like the type of fan they had.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: I felt like it was a very golf clap.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Stadium when we played there this is we've got 20
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: literally 20 years ago 2006 but i remember hearing about
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: it hearing about hearing about it that was a close
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: game we won the last play of the game yeah
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: and i don't remember it being overwhelming but you talk
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: loud yes but not like not not overwhelming like some
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: of the places not like one like your hair wasn't
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: like the swamp and not intense with like hatred and
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: maybe that's sometimes you can feel hatred maybe because we
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: didn't play them like a lot yeah i guess we
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: ended up playing three times in our career but It
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: must have flipped because there's people that talk about that
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: place now like it might be the best.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: Lane flipped him when he came back.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's what it was.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: Maybe when he came back.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Maybe that's where the villain arc started.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know. But all I've heard about this matchup
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: is kneeling, kneeling, kneeling.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: I'm like, well, I wish it was a night game
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: in kneeling.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: That'd be awesome.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Not a noon kick.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that is criminal.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I think for the home team, a noon kick is–
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: it takes– 20% of your home field advantage away.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: 20? I think it takes way more than that.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Do you?
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: Can you imagine if LSU would have played Ole Miss
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: at 11? Rather than 7? Like, I mean, it's more
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: than 20. I think it's 50% different. Yeah. At least.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Like, if I had a game like that, I'd want
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: to be Texas.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Noon, Eastern? Yeah. Sign me up for that.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: They don't have time to get hydrated.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: They don't have time to get pissed off all day long.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I think that's true.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: It's just human nature.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's going to be hotter than hot, I'm sure.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, Tennessee's a little bit better.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: It's like most NFL games at noon. There's not a
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: ton of juice in NFL stadiums.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: Now, the Superdome's going to be popping because they've been
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: waiting for something to pop for a while.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: True.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: But they're not even close. It's not even close to
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: an NFL stadium at 3.30 or 4.30. a primetime game.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: The NFL stadiums get rocking as well, but it's hard
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: at noon. I always used to make fun of Lambeau
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: at 12. I was like, the noon o'clock games is
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: like bring your grandkid to the stadium type game. We're
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: going to bring our game and bring our signs and say,
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: go team, go. It's hard at 11. It's hard at noon.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: That's nobody's fault.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: There is a growing thing online about LSU always getting
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: night games, people getting real upset.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Hey, the TV station decided that.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: It's like the Cowboys getting so many primetime games.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: Because they do numbers.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: It is what it is. Just thank you for not
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: giving us a noon game.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: Which would be 11 here, by the way.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: Did we ever get the final stats on the amount
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: of viewers who watched LSU Ole Miss? I think it
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: was like– What would we guess, 18? Yeah, it was
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: nowhere close to that. It was like 13 peak, 13.8.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: It's crazy the numbers. Like the most anticipated game in
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: college football. And I would love to see what a 3.30
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: game did on Sunday. It was probably 23. Let me see.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Maybe close to double. If you do it in the NFL.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: Obviously. All right.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it peaked at 13.7.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: 13.7? Yeah.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: That's crazy low to me.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: It averaged 11 million.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: That's crazy low to me.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: Just for that type of game.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: For how hyped up it was, yes.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: Hey, that was my bold prediction. College viewership is going
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: to be down this year. That's one of my bold predictions.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: Is that down?
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: Sounds like it. Seems really low to me. It peaked
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: at 13.1. There was no good games all day.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: True. Those games are so bad.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: College game day. I'm trying to.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: But what about all the people watching in bars? What
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: about all the people watching in bars? How did they
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: take that into account?
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: There's a metric they use.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: What, like the capacity of places?
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Something like that, yeah. And how many screens they have.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: That mic being there is really bothering me. It's very
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: directly in my line of sight.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to find like a random week. two matchup.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I don't have one yet. Like for NFL numbers. I
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: was trying to get the Chargers Raiders. That would have
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: been a random one.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: That hasn't been released yet.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I think tomorrow maybe. I don't know.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: The NFL needs to figure out what to do on
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Tuesdays and Wednesdays because like Tuesdays and Wednesdays, I'm like,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: there's nothing to do.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Until there's Maction.
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: Oh, right. I got it right here.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Maction, I guess.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: Fox's game of the week in week two, which was
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: the Cowboys-Commanders. Uh-huh. So this is a 330 game. Peaked
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: at $ 27, 212, 000. Literally double. Literally double.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: The Commanders-Cowboys.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: Literally double from college football game of the season, probably,
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: as far as the buildup.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Even Texas-Ohio State peaked at $ 14, 000, I think.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: Just goes to show you, like, we love college around here,
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: but it's not the same everywhere.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair.
• 30:34
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench. Wednesday's show is brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Poncho.
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  Speaker 5: Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in. OTB here live from the
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  Speaker 2: Raising Cane Studio. Every single Wednesday brought to you by
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  Speaker 2: our friends over at Poncho. PonchoOutdoors.com slash off the bench.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, we are eight days away.
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  Speaker 5: From what?
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  Speaker 6: Robot.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my God, I can't wait.
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  Speaker 6: Robot.
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  Speaker 3: I have the button right here ready to go. I
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  Speaker 3: saw you side-eye me, my singing.
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  Speaker 5: I was thinking Luke was late.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we like to let go and let God in here, Luke, okay?
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  Speaker 2: If we have a song that we want to sing,
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  Speaker 2: we sing it.
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  Speaker 5: We sing like no one's listening.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Some people dance like nobody's watching. We're the opposite.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes we say things like nobody's listening.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: And they actually are.
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  Speaker 6: They might not be.
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  Speaker 2: They are, because every time you say something, like, Did
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  Speaker 2: Flea really say that? I'm serious. Yes, he did. Did
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  Speaker 2: he mean it?
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  Speaker 6: No less. I'm telling you, no less than 15 people
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  Speaker 6: last week at the Dunham game. We're talking about collegiate.
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  Speaker 6: Me mispronouncing words. So I had to walk around saying,
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  Speaker 6: I swear to God, I'm smart. I swear.
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  Speaker 2: Smart?
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  Speaker 6: That's some heavy, heavy lifting. Why don't you look at
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  Speaker 6: all-time wonderlick scores, bud? That's fair. The NFL combine.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: All-time?
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  Speaker 6: For quarterbacks. Top five, I know. I'd be five.
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  Speaker 4: Real quick, because we got asked a question.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: In Ask... OTP, Melbeck, same thing.
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  Speaker 5: It's not the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Not the same, Jake.
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  Speaker 2: Jake? that I want to post to you, and then
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell the people about K-Z, but I
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: want you to think about it. They were asking about
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: how you would handle, if you're Blake Baker, Marcel Reed.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to think about it. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: tell the people about K-Z. K-Z Interiors and Outdoor Living.
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  Speaker 3: Living.
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  Speaker 2: Go to KZBlinds.com. K-ZBlinds.com. It's going to be a commercial.
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  Speaker 2: You might have already seen it.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a big deal. Don't treat me any different.
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  Speaker 2: I did with K-Z. We're showing off that motorized screen
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  Speaker 2: that we've got there on our patio that transforms the space.
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  Speaker 2: They can do that for you as well. Have Brandon
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  Speaker 2: Barton and team come out to your space, know your space,
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  Speaker 2: They've been in the game since 2004 doing that across
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  Speaker 2: the greater Baton Rouge area. Go to K to Z blinds,
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  Speaker 2: K T O Z blinds.com. Matthew Flynn.
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  Speaker 6: How would I handle Marcel Reed?
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  Speaker 2: You've got, two linebackers that are athletic linebackers. You want
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: to be aggressive. You want to bring some pressure, which
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: you're known for, but you also got to cover some
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: things up.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, let me ask you. I'm not changing a whole lot.
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  Speaker 4: Let me ask it this way.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: If you want to make him a thrower and not
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: a runner, what do you think that that looks like?
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  Speaker 6: I think you go into the game with a similar
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  Speaker 6: game plan like you had this past week.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Trinidad really didn't have.
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  Speaker 6: He made some incredible plays.
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  Speaker 4: The run that he had.
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  Speaker 2: For a touchdown, like the last touchdown there, that was
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: just him doing that on his own.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like that wasn't a play where he was supposed to
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: have the option to pull it.
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: But he did, and he scored. He's a hell of
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  Speaker 4: a player.
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  Speaker 6: You pick and choose your times that you're going to
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  Speaker 6: actually really go after the quarterback for a sack. You
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  Speaker 6: pick and choose those times because there's a lot of
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  Speaker 6: times When you play quarterback like this, and they did
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: it a lot against Trinidad, you rush to a certain level.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: Then you kind of, you say, if I can get
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  Speaker 6: to him underneath, great. But I'm not going to outrun
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  Speaker 6: him and let him step up. If he's going to
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: make us, he's going to scramble. He's going to scramble
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: outside of me. He's not going to scramble through the middle.
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: So that's, and then there's a lot of techniques where
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: you rush. where I remember telling, like in Green Bay,
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: telling Clay Matthews, not me, telling the defensive coach, this
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: was his coaching technique, you're going to rush and never
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: get past the level of the quarterback. So if the
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: quarterback is dropped back, the back of his drop back's
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  Speaker 6: on the 42-yard line, do not rush past the 42-yard line.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: That is the top of your rush right there. And
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: then you stop and you hold. Now, you can pick
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: and choose your times, and you can pick and choose
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: the people that you decide to do that. So if
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: you blitz a linebacker, Your defensive end is going to
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: stay right there on the 42-yard line. The linebacker can
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: go after him. Or maybe it's the defensive tackle wrapping
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: around can go after him. But you always have to
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: have somebody there or presence there with the defensive line
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: that's going to try to keep him from– and sometimes
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: the quarterback is going to scramble and get outside of you.
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: And that's going to happen. They're going to make plays.
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: They're athletes too. What you have to try to protect from, again,
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: is making them– letting them step up and then scramble.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: Because that's the fastest way to a quarterback making a
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: first down. Now, if he has to outrun somebody to
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: the sideline, sometimes it's going to work. Sometimes it's not.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: Trinidad scored a touchdown that way. And they took bad angles.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: You can learn from that. I don't think I'm changing
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: the game plan too much because after watching the film,
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: there was plays there to be made that just weren't made.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: And Blake Baker's doing a lot more. We talked about
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: it earlier in the show. We talk about it in
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: Eye in the Sky, our film review. So go check
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: it out on YouTube. We talked about the cover two
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: in the cloud corner, the cloud coverage they are playing
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: to the side of blitzes. That is confusing. That is
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: hard to throw against. I think what they're doing right now,
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: they're showing he has the personnel to show a lot
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: of variety with what he's calling, and they did. They
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: did it against Ole Miss. Look, he turned it up,
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: put on a Superman cape, and made some great plays.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: You can't let that affect the way you go into
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: a game from a game plan standpoint. You got to–
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: your guys understand, and they let him make some of
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: those superhuman plays by playing a little bad technique. Maybe
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: have like having some of the safeties that got thrown
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: in there, some bad eye discipline and didn't react to
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: what they saw. They didn't react to their keys as
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: fast as they were supposed to. Well, you got game film.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: You got coaches that are going to critique. They're going
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: to correct. You're going to practice those things. So I
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: wouldn't change a whole lot. What they do this year
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: is different than what they did last year. So I
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: wouldn't judge this defense by past teams' mistakes against Marcel. Now, again,
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: he sees LSU helmets. All of a sudden, he's a
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: way better quarterback than he is with every other team.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: I think that ends this year.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: And if he does make a play, make sure it's
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: with his arm and not his legs.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: He's going to get out. You want him to get
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: out on the outside. That's harder to do. That's more
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: of a one-off.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: It's not the quickest path to the end zone, Matthew.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: Bingo.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: The middle of the field is in the passing game
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: and also running the football.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we will step away. We've got one final segment.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench. Wednesday's show is brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Poncho.
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  Speaker 7: We don't even talk anymore And we don't even know
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  Speaker 7: what we argue about Don't even say I love you
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: no more Saying how we feel is no longer allowed.
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: Some people work things out and some just don't know
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: how to change. Let's go into the water.
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  Speaker 6: All right, welcome back here. Off the bench, closing out
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  Speaker 6: the show. I want to tell you about our friends
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  Speaker 6: The project represents a major investment in Louisiana's future, but
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  Speaker 4: We levitated over that note.
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  Speaker 6: Can't even look at you anymore. Golly.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Hashtag Ask the Bench, of course, brought to you by
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  Speaker 2: Dos Equis. It's always a great time to go for dos.
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  Speaker 2: Hashtag Ask the Bench. Is Luke going to make it?
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: How are we doing over there, Luke? We good? We're
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: making it.
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: No glug glugs?
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: That was very convincing.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: He didn't glug glug.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: We're making it. It's a flawless show over here.
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: No big deal. Crushing it. I love those Yankees, by
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: the way.
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  Speaker 4: Hashtag Ask the Bench.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all know by playing Always Be My Baby last break
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: and yesterday being day of fall, you officially started the
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: thawing process of Mariah.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, we started it.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: We did.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: That's true, the thawing.
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: Unintentionally, too.
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: I kind of did think about it. I forgot fall
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: was yesterday.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: Was it? I think so.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: Didn't feel real fall-y here.
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: It's insane.
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: I thought it felt pretty cool.
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: You got a scooch?
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a scooch.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: A little scooch, a little dollop.
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: The mornings are less humid.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: Next week?
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: Not on that soccer field.
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: Robot Flynn.
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: Next Thursday?
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: Hashtag ask the bench.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: I can't wait. You get to choose one person or
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: one group for your R & B Hall of Fame. Hmm.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, as much as I want to go boys
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: to men, I do. Y'all know I love Boyz II Men.
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: It's got to be Usher.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: It's got to be Usher for me.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Usher, Raymond.
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: I don't have an answer for that.
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Switzerland?
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: I'm going to say Boyz II Men just because I'm
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: not real versed in the R & B game.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: That's why I don't have an answer.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: I mean, I listened to this album an obnoxious amount
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: of times growing up. Yeah, me too.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, Boyz II Men is too fast.
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I could draw you what the CD looked like.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt.
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: Not just the circle part.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: Y'all know I love JT.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that falls into it.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: So I think I need to put JT in there.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: That's probably a bad take, but I love JT.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: It ain't everybody else's take. It's your take.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: Stand by that.
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: That's why it's kind of like my QB list.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: He's R & B, but he's also, I don't know.
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: It's like the QB list. You just got to be confident.
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: No, it's my.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Future Sex Love Sounds is probably one of the highest
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: grossing R.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: & B albums of all time.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: 10 out of 10.
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: You know?
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: New Edition's great, too.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, Justified. Cry Me a River Alone.
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: Justified. It hits.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Brian McDyche. Another good one.
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: Is it not Justin-fied? It's just justified. It's a missed opportunity.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: It really is.
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: Swing and a miss. I do miss bands with a bass.
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: I'm a bass guy.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I love some bass.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: D-Bar 85, R.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Kelly.
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: Look, I know it's like no problem, but R.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Kelly got some bangers.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: Just objectively, like he does.
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: He's got an active batter.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: I do like the bass voice. I like the guy
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: that just comes into it and just.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: No, baby, I didn't mean to do what I did.
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: Hey, girl, I'm sorry.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: It all falls on me, baby, not you. Let me
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: make my wrongs right.
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: Let me make my wrongs right.
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: LSU's going to beat Texas A & M so bad.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they are.
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: They're going to crush them. A & M, you suck.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Yale leaders, you suck.
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: Actually, thanks for your business.
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you for that.
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: Ole Miss, thanks for your business, too.
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we love you, Coach Moffitt.
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: Love Coach Moffitt. USA too.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: Just not Saturday.
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